I guess when you're a firefighter in a small town you have to start your own fires. picked by civicracer18c1 2 years ago

Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign. picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago

A fire truck responding to a house fire on Olive Street in Elyria early this morning lost its rear axle and gas tank on Broad Street near East Bridge .
The Firefighters on the truck were all able to escape without injury. picked by TraumaMamma 12 months ago

Cliff Fletcher, who served with the Leafs as team president, chief operating officer and general manager between 1991 and 1997, has been appointed to serve as interim general manager. picked by punthe 7 months ago

According to court documents, the woman told police that Hart held her against her will, threatened her with a knife, choked her, threw lighter fluid on her and lit her on fire. He then lit the couple’s bed on fire, destroying some of her personal belongings. picked by muppet 4 months ago

Fire officials in Clearwater, Fla., say a heroic cat that helped its owner escape a fire did not make it out of the burning mobile home alive. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

According to reports from the Southern Area Coordination Center, the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia exploded from 1,000 acres to more than 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours between April 16 and 17, 2007. Strong winds whipped the blaze into 100-foot flames, while individual trees went up like torches. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound. picked by Mitzuzake 6 months ago

A cat that fled a house fire is back home in Albuquerque, N.M., after turning up some 240 miles away. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

Students in Canada have found a new way to fill time in between lectures – by setting each other on fire for fun. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Okay, you're 22 and started a preventable fire. You are fined with over $1,000,000 restitution.

I'm just wondering, how would you handle it?

This happens a lot around here, and I've always wondered. It's so easy for this sort of thing to happen. What would you do if you accidently caused this much compensable damage? picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

The longstanding mystery of how oceans once formed on Mars could be solved by fire and brimstone. Specifically, researchers now suggest that ancient volcanoes could have released brimstone — now more commonly known as sulfur — that warmed up the red planet enough for liquid water oceans in the early days of Mars. These findings might also shed insight on the young Earth, including the ... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Spectacular fire in a hazmat recycling plant. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, and key business records saved. Seems like a category for news imagery would be fun. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

I'd use an IM to fire someone. It would go something like this: "you got pwnd n00b, get out! LOL!!!111 :D" picked by muppet 1 year ago

A woman was arrested and charged with arson and burglary after police say she set fire to the home of a neighbor she thought had stolen her keys. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Fire officials are blaming a hookah – a water pipe used to smoke tobacco – for causing the fire that killed two University of Victoria students picked by DemureArt 1 year ago

Kebe Peinda Gotha set herself on fire at Rome's city hall on Friday in an apparent protest over a visit to Italy by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade. Here is a auto-translated article from an Italian paper picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago

A man told police that he set his parents' home on fire Wednesday afternoon to chase away burglars he claimed were creeping around the attic. picked by deepcleanfun 12 months ago

the California Department of Forestry will announce shortly that the massive Santiago Canyon Fire - which has caused an estimated $10 million in damage - is being officially declared an arson. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A sicko set a cat on fire in East Boston, and then used the burning, screeching animal as a live Molotov cocktail, chucking it at the window of a house, a crime that investigators believe could be connected to gang violence. picked by suebe 1 year ago